5 ways leaders and analysts can try thinking differently to be data-led
5 ways that leaders or analysts can try Thinking Differently to be data-led. Guest blogger Harry Powell shares a case study of applying each.
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July 28, 2021
Perhaps Execs don’t need data literacy after all, just good judgement
Guest blogger, Tony Boobier, makes a case against data literacy education for executives. Should they just be focussed on better judgement?
Tony’s story: lesson learnt from a late South African parcel
A story of Tony Boobier’s South African parcel & what he learnt from nothing happening as a result. What are you assuming? What do you know?
Hanne’s story: How my stroke taught me to get better not back to my old normal
Hanne Sorteberg shares her story. How suffering a stroke changed her life forever & taught her how to get better, not back to her old normal.
What does Shakespeare have to say about Leadership and Analytics?
What does Shakespeare have to say to data & analytics leaders today? Reflections on lessons from his plays for data leaders from Tony Boobier.
Humanise your automation to ensure a positive employee experience
CX author Annette Franz shares why you should humanise your automation to ensure positive customer & employee experiences, not just processes.
Is your focus on prediction weakening your Data Science work?
Is today’s focus on prediction, rather than explanatory models, weakening the commercial impact of data teams? A challenge from Harry Powell.
How to lead organisations through Adaptive Change
Film-maker & leadership coach, Ty Francis, shares his experience of how to lead organisations through adaptive change or wicked problems.
You might be wasting your time with clustering for segmentation
Prof Nick Radcliffe makes the case for why clustering your customers is a bad idea that wastes analysts time & delivers suboptimal marketing.
Leader, how well do you behave when being presented to?
Harry Powell tackles the critical issue of how leaders behave when being presented to. Improve your behaviour with his half-third-sixth model
The power of a data thinking mindset to transform your software projects
Chief Data Scientist, Richard Pugh, explains how data thinking & design thinking can improve on the popular software-first project approach.
Adopting a healthy scepticism of thinking fast with data
Tony Boobier shares lessons from “Thinking Fast & Slow” for the challenge of what mindset is needed by analysts & those interpreting data.